Elisabeth Borne’s resignation followed the passage last month of immigration legislation backed by Macron aimed at strengthening the government’s ability to deport some foreigners
A new French law meant to fight the rising cost of living has supermarkets facing millions in fines if they don’t reach a deal with suppliers on prices
A petition with over 120,000 signatures seeks to defeat a plan to replace the original panes saved from the fire with modern alternatives
The United States, France, and Egypt have expressed concern about a possible regional escalation after the assassination of Hamas’ number two in Beirut
The French president opens 2024 with fractures within his government and the challenge of defeating the far right in the European elections in June
New deportation laws in the EU and debates about immigration in the United Kingdom and the United States will mark the 2024 election calendar. Nationalists and populists appear to be advancing their agenda in the West
The obsession with framing migration as an invasion is especially jarring in Spain, a country that hundreds of thousands of people left to escape misery and Franco’s dictatorship
Depardieu was handed preliminary rape and sexual assault charges in 2020 following allegations from actor Charlotte Arnould, and has been accused by more than a dozen other women of harassing, groping or sexually assaulting them
Macron said the actor ‘makes France proud’ after a documentary showed that 16 women have accused Depardieu of harassing, groping or sexually assaulting them
The bill received favorable votes in parliament from the far-right National Rally, putting France’s centrist president in an uncomfortable position
The parliamentary wrangling over a law that combined conservative and progressive measures has shown up the limitations of the French leader’s centrist approach
Macron will tour the fenced-off reconstruction site where stonemasons, carpenters and hundreds of other artisans are hammering away to meet the 12-month deadline
Travel the world to the cafés and eateries where history is made and secrets shared over fine wine and hors d’oeuvres
Xi Jinping said the former US Secretary of State will be ‘missed by the Chinese people.’ A ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine headline said, ‘Henry Kissinger, war criminal beloved by America’s ruling class, finally dies’
Riyadh beat Rome and the South Korean port city of Busan. The Saudi bid had notably received official support from French President Emmanuel Macron
In the first four days of the truce with Israel, the Islamist militia has freed 69 people, including 51 Israelis, 17 Thais and a Filipino citizen
The origin, nature and ideology of the Palestinian militia is far removed from that of the jihadist group, although the tactics used in the October 7 attack have led the Netanyahu government to equate them
Joel Guerriau, a 66-year-old representing the Loire-Atlantique region in western France, was detained for 48 hours and given preliminary charges Friday, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement
Allies of Israel are pressuring for an easing of attacks on Palestinians, while affirming that it has the right to defend itself against Hamas. Macron has called on the country to stop killing women and children
The gathering in Paris brought together officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and NGOs, with the aim of providing urgent aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip
Several non-governmental organizations have criticized the overall legislation as threatening migrants’ rights and considering them ‘as nothing more than potential labor’
Fears are high of a resumption of the violence that has marked their relations since Kosovo unilaterally broke away from Serbia in 2008
French president Emmanuel Macron visits Jerusalem and suggests international coalition against ISIS should also fight Hamas
Historian and political scientist Rahmane Idrissa believes that Niger’s coup d’état will cause the infrastructures that channel foreign aid to be restricted, which will harm the most disadvantaged population
Some schoolchildren, parents and personnel returned to the Gambetta-Carnot school in the northern city of Arras as it reopened Saturday morning to reconnect and seek support
The suspected attacker, a former student at the school and a Russian national of Chechen origin, was arrested. President Emmanuel Macron said France had been ‘hit once again by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism’
Marina Ovsyannikova, who interrupted a live broadcast of one of Russia’s most-watched news programs and also called Vladimir Putin a killer, lives in France under consular protection